Am 21.02.2014 16:57, schrieb Thiez:
On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 14:27:48 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 13:08:37 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio wrote:
On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 12:56:32 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
That is easy to answer, I doubt they could with their rule of not
having more than 5 characters per keyword. :)
Wait, what? REALLY????? What kind of rule is that.
ahahahha... are they stuck to the 70's? :D
Yes really,
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
I just cannot find the Reddit thread any longer.
That is not true, Rust has several keywords that are more than 5
characters, such as 'continue'. The full list is here:
http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/rust.html#keywords . It is true
that they prefer short keywords over long ones. It used to be the case
that 'loop' could mean 'continue' but people found it confusing so it
was fixed.
What I was arguing in that old thread was things like pub vs public, mut
vs mutable and so on.
I have a strong ML background as my university teachers were quite found
of ML and we had a few courses using Caml Light.
So I do like Rust and my issue back then was why to short those keywords
and similar.
Then again as I come from Pascal family of languages and always liked a
bit verbosity, instead of the write only way of C.
--
Paulo
